"The workload certainly isn't decreasing, and the ongoing mission in the Southwest border, as well as your support to European Command, demonstrate exactly that."
"I think we need to learn from the past as we move forward in the future."
"we will probably address that topic at a later moment, but CRs certainly have an impact on us."
"It is my sincere hope that with the threat of Government default hopefully averted, we can now make progress on passing the Government's budget on time."
"I don't know anybody that can tell me why this person had access to this particular classified information, but it is troublesome."
"we are going to be 100 percent committed this year."
"They may not have been born here, but they love this country as much as any of us who pledge allegiance to that flag."
"the taxpayer gets the biggest bang for the buck."
"The National Guard and Reserves have always done more with less, fewer full-time personnel, smaller budgets, older weapons systems and vehicles, and aging IT infrastructure and facilities."
"I hope that when you are in the highest levels of the Pentagon, that you discuss this candidly."
"A full-year continuing resolution (CR) would be a fiscally unsound way of funding the Department, the Navy, the Navy Reserve and government as a whole."